I guess this may be why summer was kind of lame this year. Everything's coming out now. I'm serious, every new weekend brings like four or five movies that I want to see, and it's getting pretty hard to keep up. Don't get me wrong though, I've done pretty well. I've seen a lot, and a shocking amount of them were really good. 2006 is quickly ( Read more... )

Well, I'm glad I didn't move to Canada ( Read more... )

The Grudge 2: The Ju-on series has produced some of the most creative and harrowing horror films of the last decade. American studios have been remaking them as the Grudge series, which have been consistently less interesting than their foreign counterparts. This time, Amber Tamblyn plays a young girl pursued by the vengeful ghost Kayako (the ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I talked about the Senate race. After Lamont's victory in the primary, everything got pretty quiet for a while. Now, though, with mere weeks until the election, the whole thing has been blown wide open again. So far two out of three debates have aired featuring all the candidates. For the two main competitors, it's business ( Read more... )

Scorsese strikes again. The Departed is the kind of explosive, nihilistic and furiously entertaining film that we haven't seen for ages. Though the premise is taken from the acclaimed Chinese thriller Internal Affairs, this film is vintage Scorsese. The sudden bursts of brutal violence, the rapid-fire cursing, the loud clashes of male egos...it's ( Read more... )

Hollywoodland - This chilly drama explores the mysterious death of George Reeves, the first TV Superman whose suicide shocked Hollywood, or as the famous sign read at the time, "Hollywoodland." But was it really a suicide? Though Reeves scored a hit with the show, his Man of Steel reputation would ultimately hinder his career aspirations. It didn't ( Read more... )

Summer's over...so let's take a quick look at some smaller films.

The Night Listener - Patrick Stettner's adaptation of Armistead Maupin's short story has trouble deciding if it wants to be a typical psychological thriller or low-key character piece. As radio host Gabriel Noone, Robin Williams gives another complex performance to add to his ( Read more... )

Some people are never satisfied. When the news broke that Oliver Stone would direct a movie about 9/11, an obnoxious collective whine erupted from all over the spectrum of cinema-related publications. They feared that Stone would inject September 11 with a JFK-style conspiracy theory or Natural Born Killers-style hyper editing. Give the man more ( Read more... )

Despite whatever happens at the box-office, it is now quite clear that Snakes on a Plane will become at least an asterisk in the history of movies. When word of the movie's humorously straightforward title got out on the internet, Snakes on a Plane had become a sensation months before it would even open. The interplay between fans and producers ( Read more... )

You all may have noticed that this Connecticut Senate Race has pretty much taken over this journal. I never really intended it to be that way. I didn't talk this much even about the Presidential Election two years back...but it was different this time. I really felt like I was right in the middle of this one, instead of standing on the sidelines ( Read more... )